This
week's set is an admittedly small one, with just two figures:
lead-booted physician Stephen Maturin and obese sanguinite Lucky Jack
Aubrey, complete with battle-lost ear.

If you haven't read the Aubrey/Maturin
books, you should. They're truly incredible, though in truth I've only
read the first four. Reading them was getting me excited about doing
another nautical book, this one putting much more emphasis on getting
the rigging right, but my editor told me that it was "too soon to return
to the pirate trough" having done the pirate-themed Crogan's Vengeance
only a couple of books ago, and so I must wait. I'm holding off on
reading the remainder of the Patrick O'Brian novels until that time.

2. Thanks for the heads-up about the old blog link error! I'm letting the blog stay up, because there's lots of stuff on it I don't have elsewhere, but the link was definitely an error! It's fixed now, and I'm grateful to you for having brought my attention to it! Thanks!